Get started building with Power BI
Introduction
Microsoft Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights. Whether your data is a simple Microsoft Excel workbook or a collection of cloud-based and on-premises hybrid data warehouses, Power BI lets you easily connect to your data sources, visualize
Power BI can be simple and fast, capable of creating quick insights from an Excel workbook or a local database.
The parts of Power BI
Power BI Desktop-Power BI consists of a Microsoft Windows desktop application called Power BI Desktop,
Power BI service-an an online Software as a service called the Power BI service.
Power BI Mobile- mobile Power BI apps that are available on any device, with native mobile BI apps for Windows, iOS, and Android.
Use Power BI
Bring data into Power BI Desktop, and create a report.
Publish to the Power BI service, where you can create new visualizations or build dashboards.
Share dashboards with others, especially people who are on the go.
View and interact with shared dashboards and reports in Power BI Mobile apps.
Basic building blocks in Power BI:
- Visualizations
- Datasets
- Reports
- Dashboards
- Tiles
Visualizations:-
Visualization is a visual representation of data, like a chart, a color-coded map, or other interesting things you can create to represent your data visually. Power BI has all sorts of visualization types, and more are coming all the time.
Datasets:-
A dataset is a collection of data that Power BI uses to create its visualizations.
Reports:-
In Power BI, a report is a collection of visualizations that appear together on one or more pages. Just like any other report you might create for a sales presentation or write for a school assignment, a report in Power BI is a collection of items that are related to each other.
Dashboards:-
When you're ready to share a report, or a collection of visualizations, you create a dashboard. Much like the dashboard in a car, a Power BI dashboard is a collection of visuals from a single page that you can share with others
Tiles:-
In Power BI, a tile is a single visualization on a dashboard. It's the rectangular box that holds an individual visual.
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